What Are The Symptoms Of A Brain Injury?

In UK, the compensations received for a brain injury claim is significantly larger than an average personal injury claim. If you want to make a claim for brain injury for yourself or for someone else, it is imperative that you have a thorough knowledge about the symptoms of the same. Look at the list below; it gives a list of potential symptoms, of both physical and cognitive that can occur due to damages to certain areas of the brain.

Injury of Forehead or Frontal Lobe

a) Paralysis or losing the ability to perform simple moments of part or parts of the body
b) You will become incapable of interacting with others spontaneously
c) Thinking about one thing at a time will happen more persistently
d) Mood swings
e) Personality change
f) Social behaviour changes
g) Brocha’s Aphasia or difficulty in expressing language
h) Performing simple tasks such as making dinner or lighting a candle will be difficult to perform
i) The flexibility in though process will be lost
j) Losing attention easily
k) Difficulty in performing everyday problem solving

Injury of the Parietal lobe or the top or back of the head

a) Inability in naming an object
b) Reading or Alexia will be more difficult for you
c) Difficulty in drawing objects
d) Solving easy mathematical problems or Dyscalculia as it is known will be impossible to deal with
e) Inability to visually focus
f) Incapable of recognising multiple objects at a time
g) Whilst writing you will be incapable of finding the right words
h) Unable to tell the difference between right and left
i) Difficulty in hand and eye coordination

Injury of the Occipital lobes or the posterior part of the head

a) Vision defects
b) Reading or Alexia will be more difficult for you
c) Color Agnosia or difficulty in recognizing colors
d) Objects will be seen inaccurately and you may have visual illusions
e) The failure in recognising drawn objects
f) The inability to read and write
g) Inability to locate objects in the environment
h) See things
i) Inability in recognizing words
j) Inability to identify the movement of an object

Injury of the temporal lobes or the portion of the head above the ears

a) Inability to recognize faces
b) The attention needed to see and hear things will be lost
c) Your memory might disappear for a short time
d) Decrease or increase in sexual desire
e) Talking too much
f) Inability to understand spoken words
g) Difficulty in identifying and verbalizing visual objects
h) long term memory problems
i) You will feel helpless when it comes to categorising objects
j) Increase in aggressiveness

Injury of the brain stem or portion of the brain that is deep within

a) Decrease in the vital capacity to breath, which is necessary for speech
b) Inability to identify objects in the environment
c) Nausea and dizziness
d) The tendency to swallow food and water
e) Movement and balancing can become harder
f) Sleep problems like sleep apnea or insomnia

Injury of the cerebellum or the base of the skull

a) Losing the ability to coordinate movements to perform simple tasks
b) Inability in reaching out and grabbing an object
c) Giddy
d) Inability to make rapid body movements
e) You will find it impossible to walk
f) Tremors
g) Slurred speech

Legal advice from a personal injury solicitor is necessary in seeking head injury compensation as the complications are too difficult to understand for the layperson.

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